Please let me go

This is a really sad photo and I hope it doesn't upset you but it is nature. The sparrowhawk had got a female blackbird on the lawn. After I took this I went outside to shoo the bird away hoping that it would drop the poor blackbird. Alas, it flew off with the poor little bird in it's talons. I know that it is nature and the sparrowhawk has to eat too but it still upsets me when I see it. I didn't expect to see this out of my kitchen window. I hope it wasn't the little blackbird I posted today

[The Dog Lady]

A wonderful shot... but I am like you I hate to see it and feel for the blackbird

[Lin]

A great shot - yes, nature happens - I feel fortunate that we have no hawks currently in my neighborhood.

[Asli]

Oh! Wov nice timing

[Diana]

That's nature, a brilliant capture and great timing.

[Sue Cooper]

Sad to see but you're right, the sparrowhawk has to eat. Brilliant capture. Fav.

[Joan Robillard]

I posted a similar but rather poor picture several years ago. If we post the mating we have to admit to the other parts of nature.

[Monica]

Sad, but a great picture. And I agree with you and previous posters, it's nature

[Issi Bannerman]

Oh, so very sad, but what a great image of nature at work.

[Beryl Lloyd]

A wonderful capture of nature , so cruel yet so essential ! fav

[Lynda McG]

Sad story, but great capture

[Phil Sandford]

A pretty regular occurrence in our garden Rosie; our Sparrowhawk visits every day and probably gets a meal once a week. Not something I’d want my Grandchildren to see, but it’s living in the country I guess.

[Peter]

Nature at its cruelest but its all part and parcel of natural servival, well spotted and captured Rosie:)

[carol white]

Great capture, like how you've caught him mantling his prey.Fav😊. I've had Sparrowhawk's in our garden a couple of times, catching pigeons and leaving a feathery mess behind them

[Steve Jacob]

Everything is food for something else.
I do love the capture though

[Tom]

A wonderful capture of the talon and claw of nature

[wendy frost]

Well captured Rosie but makes me sad to see the blackbird as dinner.

[Rick]

Awesome capture. Nature can be so cruel at times.